How to install SSIS 2012, 2014, 2016 (SSDT-BI for Visual Studio)

Introduction In this blog post you will learn how to install SSIS addon SSIS PowerPack (30+ extra tasks/components) and also how to install SSIS client/server tools. There are various versions of SSIS (Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services) such as SSIS 2008, SSIS

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Consume XML Web service in SSIS (REST API or SOAP)

Introduction Microsoft provides native XML Source adapter but most of users will find it totally unusable in many scenarios. In this post you will learn how to read data from XML files or consume XML web service in SSIS using

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Reference Assembly in SSIS Script Task (.net Custom Assembly)

In this blog post I want to show how to reference custom .net Assembly in SSIS Script Task. Assume you want to use some JSON dll in your Script Task instead of this json connector. Here are the steps. Add

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Get File Column Count using SSIS C# Script Task

Sometimes you have changing schema in your flat file (Columns added or Removed) If you ever want to know how many columns you have in flat file then simply use below snippet and it will tell you column count. #region

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How to use SSIS Data Viewer in DataFlow Task

SSIS Data Viewer - Debug Pipeline

In this post you will learn how to use SSIS Data Viewer to debug/troubleshoot SSIS DataFlow Pipeline issues at runtime. You can use SSIS Data Viewer any time you want to see what your data look like at given point

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How to use SSIS Derived Column Transform

SSIS Derived Column Transform Expression

What is SSIS Derived Column Transform SSIS Derived column transform is used to change existing columns coming from Source or add New Columns in the Pipeline Buffer. Note: For simplicity we have used Free DummyData Generator Source in this post

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How to show more than 8000 chars in SSMS output

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If you ever tried to display more than 8000 characters column such as varchar(MAX) column value in SSMS output in text mode then you will quickly realize that you hit the wall. SSMS truncates anything more than 8000 chars (approx.

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DISTINCT vs GROUP BY Performance in SQL Query

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If you ever wonder which one is really faster in Distinct vs Group By Performance Test then I will show some facts in this post so you can write your query accordingly.   To test distinct vs group by performance in SQL Query

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Learn Microsoft DocumentDB – Fully managed NoSQL Database offering for Azure Platform

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Yesterday Microsoft Azure services took a big leap forward by announcing their fully managed Cloud based NoSQL Database Service named as “DocumentDB” which will run under Azure Cloud Computing Platform. What is NoSQL database NoSQL database is a different category

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How to fix – Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation – VS2012 VS2010.

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I just installed few tools on my new laptop and at some point Visual Studio 2012 started throwing error “Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.“ … After Binging few mins I got some clue what could

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